Cala.
Consider Caricles how many have
Gotten the plague, although they never touched
Nor saw, nor eat, nor lay with the dese••'d,
But being with them in the selfsame air,
Let love be argument and proof of thi•,
Who taketh its beginning from the object
Of what it sees, and so as if it were
Some privy passage by the eyes hath entrance
⟨image 18⟩Into the heart, and this is probable,
For seeing of all other pores and senses
The sight is capable of most mutations,
And so the hottest, it must needs receive
Such like infections as are round about it,
And with a hot spirit entertain loves changes,
As for examples sake, I will produce
Out of the holy books some reasons for it
Gathered from natures sole consideration;
You know the bird Charadrius doth heal
Those persons whose disease is the kings evil,
Which bird doth fly away as soon as any
Diseased with this grief hath spied her,
And turns her tail to him, and shuts her eyes
Not (as some say) because she would not help them
But that by looking on them she by nature
Draws that disease unto her, therefore wisely
Declineth such a sight as present peril,
Cala.
Consider Caricles how many have
Gotten the plague, although they never touch'd
Nor saw, nor eate, nor lay with the dese••'d,
But being with them in the self•same aire,
Let love be argument and proofe of thi•,
VVho taketh its beginning from the object
Of what it sees, and so as if it were
Some privy passage by the eyes hath entrance
⟨image 18⟩Into the heart, and this is probable,
For seeing of all other pores and sences
The sight is capable of most mutations,
And so the hottest, it must needs receive
Such like infections as are round about it,
And with a hot spirit entertaine loves changes,
As for examples sake, I will produce
Out of the holie bookes some reasons for it
Gathered from natures sole consideration;
You know the bird Charadrius doth heale
Those persons whose disease is the kings evill,
Which bird doth flie away assoone as any
Diseased with this griefe hath spied her,
And turnes her taile to him, and shuttes her eyes
Not (as some say) because she would not help them
But that by looking on them she by nature
Drawes that disease unto her, therefore wiselie
Declineth such a sight as present perill,
